Direct Indexing Cloud Platform Infrastructure & Dev Ops Engineer

Core Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud-native infrastructure supporting VPI's investment platform.
• Lead AWS platform architecture, modernization, and migration initiatives.
• Design scalable, highly available, and secure infrastructure patterns across development, test, and production environments.
• Manage Kubernetes and container platforms supporting distributed workloads.
• Drive infrastructure standardization, resiliency, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Continuously improve platform observability, monitoring, logging, and operational readiness.

DevOps & Automation

• Establish and evolve CI/CD pipelines and engineering automation practices.
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code adoption using modern provisioning and configuration-management frameworks.
• Automate deployment, environment management, compliance validation, and operational processes.
• Improve engineering productivity through tooling, platform services, and self-service capabilities.
• Define and implement operational best practices for cloud-native application delivery.

Security Engineering & Architecture Enablement

• Partner with Enterprise Security and application teams to design secure platform architectures.
• Enable implementation of security controls, vulnerability remediation, identity management, encryption, network segmentation, and cloud governance frameworks.
• Support regulatory, audit, risk, and compliance initiatives.
• Drive proactive remediation of security findings and operational risks.
• Establish secure-by-default platform patterns and guardrails.

Enterprise & External System Integration

• Design and support integrations with Vanguard enterprise platforms and external vendors.
• Build secure and scalable connectivity patterns across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Enable data exchange, APIs, messaging, file transfer, and service integrations.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to evaluate emerging technology solutions and integration opportunities.

Innovation, Architecture & Proof of Concepts

• Lead technical evaluations, proofs of concept, and pilot initiatives supporting strategic platform evolution.
• Assess new technologies, cloud services, engineering tools, and architecture patterns.
• Collaborate with product, research, and engineering teams to accelerate innovation.
• Influence long-term platform architecture and modernization roadmaps.

Operational Excellence

• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex production issues and platform incidents.
• Lead root cause analysis, remediation planning, and reliability improvements.
• Establish service-level objectives, operational metrics, and reliability standards.
• Reduce operational risk through automation, standardization, and improved engineering practices.
• Ensure platform services meet performance, availability, scalability, and recoverability objectives.

Technical Leadership

• Provide architecture guidance and technical leadership across infrastructure and platform domains.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence throughout the organization.
• Lead design reviews and infrastructure governance processes.
• Champion modern engineering practices and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, or related fields.
• Deep expertise with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms in production environments.
• Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks.
• Experience designing secure, highly available distributed systems.
• Strong Linux, networking, and systems engineering background.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production systems with high availability requirements.
• Strong understanding of information security, cloud security, and risk management principles.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
• Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Within asset management, wealth management, trading, or investment platforms.
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting enterprise cloud migrations and large-scale modernization programs.
• Experience with observability platforms, monitoring solutions, and SRE practices.
• Familiarity with financial services regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Experience integrating cloud platforms with enterprise systems and third-party vendors.